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Talk on The Branson Family

Local historian, Jeanne Rathbone, talks about Clive Branson - an English artist, poet and active communist in the 1930s - and his family who lived in Battersea.  His wife Noreen became a historian of the Communist Party and his daughter Rosa, is a renowned British painter and fabric designer.  He was killed in Burma at the aged of 36, which had a profound effect on Rosa. Before his death, her father had promised to teach her to paint, which made her determined to become a trained artist.  

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